News · curated 27 Jul 2026
Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs
First reported · updated · 4 reports theregister.com
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Agentic AI systems that autonomously find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities at scale reshape both defense and offense, since the same frontier-model capabilities that harden code can be turned against it by attackers.
Microsoft and Wiz announced autonomous, agentic AI systems for vulnerability discovery and remediation: Microsoft's MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside its MDASH multi-agent harness (scoring 96% on the CyberGym benchmark) and Wiz's Atlas AI vulnerability researcher (90.9% on CyberGym, 200+ previously unknown vulnerabilities including a GitHub RCE, CVE-2026-3854). Microsoft also unveiled its EXTRA external AI red-team alliance and the Perception agentic security systems.